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A former hotel in downtown L.A. whose name graced a 1970 Doors album — and where the band surreptitiously shot the record's cover art — was badly burned in a fire Thursday morning, according ...
The former Morrison Hotel was made famous by The Doors' fifth album, 1970's Morrison Hotel. In addition to sharing the album's name, the cover art showed the band with lead singer Jim Morrison ...
Sgt. Pepper’s bestrode 1967 like a kaleidoscopic colossus, but another album arguably even more revolutionary appeared that year. The eponymous debut of The Doors took popular music into areas ...
Manzarek is mum on what else The Year of the Doors will hold, though he does acknowledge there’s “a bunch of stuff cooked up.” But he doesn’t expect any of the group’s other albums will ...
"Albinoni’s Adagio In G Minor", a Morricone-style art-piece. "Morrison Hotel"’s out-takes are more prosaic: eight interminable cock-ups of "Roadhouse Blues". Not every Doors album benefits ...
Yet the album which emerged from this seemingly hopeless situation is now widely considered to be The Doors’ defining artistic statement. A soundscape of the city that spawned it, LA Woman oozes ...